The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-01-13
The Governors Message Delivered
to the Legislature Yesterday
Extraordinary Growth Of Kansas
During the Past Tive Years.
The Ambition of the Counties to
Secure Railroads.
Improvements in the State Nor
NAL School Recommended.
Amendments to the Present Elec-
tiOn Laws Suggested.

TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 13.-NothinR Of
importance was done In the senate THU
morning.
4 resolution authorizing the chairman
OF each standing committee TO appoint
At his discretion clerk was adopted.
The governors message was then re-
oeived.
After oflclal announcement Of thu
organization OF the house, resolutions OF
the death Of General Logan wsr.
adopted.
In the house, Norton, of Mitchell, wa
elected SeEgeGnt-At-ArmS, and then the
message WIS received and nled.
In tho afternoon session Of the senate
resolution was offered requesting the
kansas delegation In congress to labor
Tor ahe adoption Of the law TO crush the
-erAndc In intoxicating drinks. Thirty
eight oil were Introduced.
In the house Pancost, ellis, T0wnsloy
Aurry, Case, 9irsro, Davies and Rnoch.
from the counties Organized since the
apporttonment were allowed seats but NO
vote.
TEE M1ssA9H.
To the Senate and House OF Representatives:
To be elected Chief Executive of thia
great, intellgt Mt And progressive state for
second term, IL distinguished honor
And trust Il - not inappropriate for me e
express 70 the psople of Kansas, through
you, their Oh sen representatives., my
grateful appreciation of their generous
confidence, m profound sense OF the res
ponSioilities devolved upon me, and my
earnest hope that may, by an honest
faithful and conscientious performance OF
my omciAl dutiea, IN some measure justi-
~ the faith they have reposed in me.
The growth OF Kansas, during the past
two years, has been extraordinary. The
census OF March 1st, 1884, gave the state
population Of 1,135 .614; that OF March
LIST, 1885. showed an increase to / 400, 73Si
and our population now exceeds / 500. 900
Since the first of January. 1885, fifteen
new counties have been organized. These
counties had, at the date OF their or0Ani-
zAtIon, an aggregate population of 80, 841
and they polled, at the November election
lthree not votingO . total of IL, 108 votes
They include territorial area OF 14,355
square miles. Only two of the one hun
dred counties OF the state, embracing an
area OF $50 square miles, remain to be
organized.
During the same penod, two cities,
Wichita and Kansas City, have bSen or
Ranized a. cities OF the nrst class, and
thirteen. Cherryvale, Abilene. Eu-
refa' Minneapolis Anthony, FL Do
Dodge City. Larned. Hutchinson and
South Topeka, - cities Of the second
class.
Two years ago the railway mileage OF
Kansas aggregated only 4,4S611 miles, as
sessed at $26 ass, 9U7.So, and traverslng
seVenIy-three counties OF the state. To-
day Kansas has $3.50 miles Of completed
railway, the assessed value Of which is
fully $50 100000. These lines traverse
eighty six Of our one hundred counties.
In 1884 the assessed value of all the
properly of the state was $237, 020, 1911
FOR 1886 It was GAIT. $50 1858. We had
then, Il, oil, 2SS acres In cultivation; last
year We had Is. 473, 4o5 acres.
These figures indicate the constant
growth Of the state.
They illustrate, also, not only the faith
our own cItizens have in the future Of
Kansas, but the confidence the people o.
other states and countries fell In its sub.
stAntial and continuous development
The influx Of foreign capital and enter
prise has, indeed, surpassed that OF any
other period In the states history, The
railroad building OF tho past year hai
been phenomenal, far exceeding that &C
complIshed during any previous season
The growth OF our cltles and towns, also
has been unexAmpled in the history o
any state, and the rapid, STEADY, and II
some instances, extravAgAnt increase II
property values, is remarkable
You, gentlemen OF the legislature, ar
assembled to make lava for this grea
state. In your hands, also. rests all au
thorlty 70 levy taxes and direct the ex
penditure OF the public revenues. II
large measure, therefore, the honor ant
welfare OF the commonwealth and tn
prosperity and happiness Of its people
depend upon your action. The dlfsren
state and bureau officers and the board
having charge of our public institutions
will all submit to you, for your informa tiO
and confederation, their biennial reports
! trust you will examine these report
carefully, TO the end that you may act up
on the suggestions or recommendation
they embody with deliberatlon and jus
tice. II 10 natural that each ofdce
charged with the performance of speciti
duties, and each board appointed to man
age q public trust, should believe that tn
interests and needs of his or its depart
nent are most important and pressing
Consider carefully all the recommends
tions thus made, but bear In mind, at tn
same time, the interests and needs OF III
people. The ear just closed has nc
been, IN many respects, q prosperous sea
son. The crops have been short epiden
Ics have brought heavy losses upon stoc
raisers. the prices OF all cereals and stoc
have ruled low, and many of our citizen
dustrIal depression. Economy in all ar
propriations made for the ensuing biennii
period, is, therefore, alike desirable an
necessary. No good citizen will CON
plain concerning 9 public expenditul
shown To be essential; all have a right {
complain IL, during such period as II
present, unnecessary expenditures a.
authorized. All intelligent citizens kno
that taxation for state purposes has new
hnrnAnaOma IN he
know, also, that every mill added by II
state Is . feataer laid upon the dreadf
load OF municipal taxation that threaten
20 crush the energy and enterprise OF
many of our couties, townships and citiG
earnestly urge, therefore, that no e
penditure be authorized unless its nece
sity be clearly shown; that all Appropri
tons which will bear delay. be postpone
and that . resolute effort be made TO 7
duce the burdens OF state taxation to 4
loweat possible limit consistent with (
needs OF q wise and economical admin
tration OF the public business.
HEw COUNTIES.
Fifteen new counties have been orgs
lied during the past two years, viz: c
mAnche. February 9th; Clark, May 81
ThUmas, October 9Th, and Yssde, Move
Der 4th, 1885 and Hamilton, January %
KioWa, March 2Se Cheyenne, April /
Lane, June Sd; seward, June 17th: Sc,
Juue 39th; Stevens, August Sd; Go
September Sd; Sherman, September 90
Morton. November 18th and WIchi
December 34th. 1886.
should the legislature, by changes
county lines, create additional COUNTS
earnestly recommend that the law cove
ing their organization be made more 9
CHIC in its directions. 1t is, IN Its pres
form, confusing and inadequate. The
ganiZati OF nearly every new county
attended by an exciting contest over
location OF the temporary seat of jus
and the governor Is required 70 locate 9
county seat at the place designated 81
majority OF the legal voters in q mcI
RIAL" How he lie to-dsteEmiae who